Chemical Find Shuts Down 2 LA Reservoirs

By ANDREW DALTON, Associated Press Writer, Space & Earth science / Environment

(AP) -- Two reservoirs that supply drinking water to parts of the nation's second-largest city have been shut down and will be drained because a rare sunlight-fueled chemical reaction tainted them with a cancer-causing chemical, utility officials said Friday.

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